Fare-indicator-selecting mechanism.



H. J. SIBLEY.

FARE INDICATOR SELECTING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION nun NOV. 15, I915.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

2 SHEETSSHEET UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY J'. SIBLEY, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO OHMER FARE REGISTER COMPANY,

OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FARE-INDIGATOR-SELECTING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

Application filed November 15, 1915. Serial No. 61,484.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY J. STBLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Indicator- Selecting Mechanisms; and I do declare the tollowingto be a full, clear, and exact descript-ion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in mechanism adapted for use in connection with fare registers and recorders for setting or selecting auxiliary fare indicators and the counters and indicators of the register and recorder.

I Fare registers and recorders have a capacity for registering and indicating a multiplicity of different denominations and classes of fares and the fare to be registered and indicated at the machine must be selected for operation. A type of such machine is shown in Letters Patent granted to John F. Ohiner on February 2, 1909, and Number 911,5 8. The indicator and counter setting or selecting devices extend conveniently to various points of the car more or less remote from the register and recorder. It is important that as little space as possible shall be utilized by said mechanism both in the interest of convenience of operation, compactness, and the utilization of a minimum of space in the car. Heretofore the setting or selecting members or rods have been mounted throughout the car with considerable space between them and, consequently, the grip pieces of said rods were separated and out of alinement and the operator was required to reach over, under, and around said rods in selecting a particular rod for the setting or selecting operation. This entailed considerable exertion and has proved detrimental in. the operations of selecting the proper auxiliary indicators and the counters and indicators of the machine, especially at such times when trafiie was heavy and the operations on the part of the con- One be mentioned attendduetor had to be in quick succession. disadvantage that may ing the mounting and positioning of said selecting devices as heretofore is the opportunity the rods offer passengers to place bundles or other articles thereon or. in other words, disposition on the part of the traveling public to make racks out of these devices while using the car.

In view of the foregoing disadvantages and others that might be mentioned, it is the object and purpose of the present invention to so mount and position the said selecting rods or devices that the manipulation thereof by the conductor is rendered more convenient and less troublesome and the occupancy of a. minimum amount of space in the car, and, further, to avoid disfiguring the interior of the car by unduly spacing or separating the devices.

Preceding a detailed description of my invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings of which- Figure 1 is a top plan View of auxiliary indicator wheels, the casing inclosing the same appearing in section, and the connecting gears being also shown as well as the selecting rods which are broken away to facilitate space, the grips of said rods being also shown", Fig. 2 is an end view somewhat on larged showing the selecting rods in section and the gears cooperating with said rods; Fig. 3 is a section on the line a.--o of Fig. 2 showing portions of the selecting rods in horizontal. elevation; Fig. 4: is a front elevation of the auxiliary indicator wheels and their cooperative elements, the casing inclosing them being shown in section as well as the selecting rods; Fig. 5 is a sectional view at right-angles to Fig. 4 or on the line b-b thereof; and Fig. 6 is a similar section on the line 0-0 of Fig. 4.

In a detail description of my invention, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, any suitable form of easing having a capacity for housing the auxiliary fare indicators, their shafts and gears, may be employed. In said drawings, I have shown a suitable casing 1 of oblong rectangular shape with sight openings 2 therein through which the indicator wheels 3, 4, 5 and 6 may be observed by the conductor or operator as well as the passengers. This auxiliary indicator casing is mounted adjacent to the fare regis' ter and recorder which is not shown. in the drawings for the reason that it constitutes no feature of the present invention. The indicator wheels 3, 1: and exhibit the fares to l e collected and registered in the machine, the first wheel. being the units, the second the tens, and the third the hundreds wheel. These may be increased to higher numbers if desired. The indicator 6 shows the class of the fare and is readable in connection with the other indicators 3, 41- and 5; for example, if a 43 cash fare is collected and shown on the units indicator wheel 3, the class fare indicator 6 will indicate Cash showing that such fare was paid cash, and, similarly, other classes of fares to be registered and indicated in the machine are shown on the wheels 3, 4? and 5, and are readable in connection with the class of fare indicator 0. These several indicators are freely mounted upon a shaft 7 which in turn is supported in suitable frames 8 extending from the back plate 9 of the casing 1. Each of said indicators has a spur 10 fixed to the flat side thereof which are engaged and operated by other gears. 1i series of parallel shafts 11, 12, 13 and 14 are mounted within the c; sing parallel with the indicator wheels shaft 7. These shafts 11, 12. 13 andl f, have their bearings in the frames 88. A corresponding number of shafts 15, 16, 17 and 18, aline with the shafts 11, 12, 13, and 14 andare connected. thereto by coupling members 19. he shafts 15, 1S, 1'? and 18 are mounted in frames 20 and 21 which are sluiported upon the interior of the casing 1, as shown in Fig. 5. The shafts 15, 16, 17 and 18 have bevel gears 56, 57, 58 and fixed thereto. The shafts 11.. 12, 13 and 14 have spur gears L23 lined thereto each of which mesh with a respective spur 10 of the indicator wheels. Extending on the interior of the car and on a side thereof adjacent to the top of the car, is a series of counter and indicator setting or selecting rods 24, 25, 26 and 27. These rods are suitably supported by any convenient numoer and form of bracket not shown). Each rod has its own respective spur gear 14:, e5, 46 and 4:7 fixed thereto. These rods are of a length to reach from one end of the car to the other and an important thing in the arrangement thereof is that they are close together in parallel relation. A se ries of independently movable and abutting handgrips 32, 38, 34: and 35, inclose these rods and each one transmits the necessary rotary movement to its respective setting rod. Tt possible for each of these grip pieces to encompass all of the rods without making the grip pieces undesirably large, owing to the rods being brought close to gether. These hand grips are enlarged somewhat at their ends and have bearing plates 36 at each enlarged end through which the setting recs 24;, 25, 26 and 2? pro jcct and forn'i supports for .aid plates. A suitable number of blocks or spacing pieces 37 are arranged at the abutting ends of said grip pieces to maintain the plates 86 in proper position. ends of each grip piece, an internal toothed ring or gear 38 is fixed and with each of these toothed rings 38 a respectire pinion 4: 1, 48 and l? is in mesh, said pinions being, as before stated, setting or selecting rod: (Ewing to the said rods b gether, the hand grips 32, e3, 3 5 and are all in alineincnt with each other and the 0}- crator or conductor in selecting a particular rod for operation conveniently moves his hand along a straight line from one grip to the other according to the particular indicator wheel to be set. The said rods are connected at the casing 1 with a similar number of socket shafts 39, 40, -11 and the ends of which are journaled respectively in the rear of the casing and in a front frame 4-3 on the inside of said casing. Each of the alined shafts 39, -10. 4-1 and 453 has a spur 28, E29, 80 and 31 fixed thereto which meshes with respective gears iii, 19, 50 and 1. latter gears haying hercl 5.4, a), as. and united therewith and meshing with bevel gears 56, 5'7, 58 and on the shafts 15. 16, 17 and 18.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that each of tie shafts 11, 12, 13 and 14 in the indicator casing 1 is geared to one of the indicator selecting rods Q l, 525, 26 and 27 and that the turning of the said shafts individually will likewise turn the indicators. For example, in Fig. 1, the unit indicator wheel 3 is geared to the shaft 11 and the tens indicator whee i is geared to the shaft 12, while the hundreds indicator wheel 5 and the indicator wheel 6 which indicates the classes of fares are geared in a similar manner to the shafts 13 and 14 re-- spectively. Each of the rid indicator wheels is pro ic ed with a momentum stop by which it is stopped in each indicating position. The said momentum stops consist of star wheels 60, 61, 62 and 63 which are mounted against the face of the indicators. Cooperating with said star wheels is a similar number of jump pawls 64-, 65, 66 and 67 which are loosely mounted on the shafts 11, 1'2, 13 and 14 and have springs 68, 69, 70 and .71 connected with them and to the back wall 9 of the casing 1. These springs exert a force which maintains the pawls in a position to ride in and out of the star wheels as the latter are rotated with the indicator wheels. The shafts 11, 12, 13 and 14 have universal couplings 72, 73, 74: and 75 connected to them which in turn connect with the indicators of the fare register and recorder so that when said shafts are rotated to set indicators 3, 5, and 6, the indi- '6, and. 2?. en nested close to In one of the enlarged rigidly mounted upon the i cators within the register and recorder are likewise set to register the fares appearing on the indicators.

While I have with some particularity described my invention, I do not wish to be limited to specific details that might be more or less varied without departing from the underlying principles of said invention which contemplate a compact arrangement of a plurality of indicator selecting rods having corresponding number of grip handles each encompassing all of said rods and occupying the same plane.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1.. In an indicator selecting mechanism, the combination of a plurality of sets of indicators, a series of indicator-selecting members cooperating therewith arranged parallel and in juxtaposition one with the other, a series of grip members inclosing portions of all of said indicator selecting members, each of said grip members being fixed to a respective selecting member whereby said selecting members are individually rotatable in setting said indicators.

2. In an indicator selecting mechanism, the combination with a series of indicators, of a series of indicator selecting members arranged parallel and adjacent to each other, a series of grip members each of which incloses all of said indicator selecting members, each of said grip members being connected with a respective selecting memher whereby said selecting members are individually rotatable in actuating a selected indicator.

3. In a mechanism of the character specitied, the combination with a series of visual indicators, of a corresponding series of indicator selecting rods operatively connected therewith and extendin along the interior of a car parallel and ad acent to each other, a series of hand grips inclosing portions of all of said rods, and gears interposed between each hand grip and a respective indicator selecting rod.

4. In a mechanism of the character specified, the combination with a series of visual fare indicators, a corresponding series of actuating members arranged adjacent thereto, a like series of selecting members extending on the interior of a car and operatively connected to said actuating members, a series of grip members inclosing portions of all of said selecting members and arranged adjacent to each other, and gears connecting each of said selecting members with one of said grip members.

5. In a mechanism of the character specified, a series of rotatable indicators, a series of actuating rods mounted in proximity thereto and each of which is geared to a specific indicator, a similar number of extension rods connected with said actuating rods, a series of indicator selecting rods arranged on the interior of a car and each of which is geared to a respective extension rod, a hand grip geared to each of said selecting rods, each of said hand grips inclosing portions of all of said selecting rods.

6. In a mechanism of the character specified, a series of indicators, a. series of actuating members arranged adjacent to said indicators, each of said actuating members being geared to a respective indicator whereby each indicator is actuated independently, a series of indicator selecting rods arranged parallel and adjacent to each other on the interior of a car, each of said selecting rods being operatively connected to a respective indicator actuating member, a series of hand grips inclosing portions of said selecting rods and arranged thereon one forward of the other and all in the same plane, a gear fixed to each of said selecting rods, and a gear meshing with each of said selecting rod gears and fixed to each hand grip.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY J. SIBLEY. Witnesses:

MELLIE GALLOWAY, M. SIEBLER.

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